A/N: Hey everybody, here's the first chapter. Enjoy! And don't forget to leave a review, bad or good constructive criticism welcome :)
Chapter One: In A Heartbeat pt One
"Grey, you're in the pit today. Yang, Burke. Stevens and Karev, Montgomery Shepherd. O'Malley, you're with Shepherd. Now MOVE!" Dr. Bailey ordered, watching the expecting faces of her interns.
The surgical interns dispersed in the direction of the placement they had been given, while Bailey watched to make sure they did what they were told. "Fools." she muttered to herself as she went to check on her own patients.
Meredith headed to the pit, thankful that at least she wouldn't run into Derek Shepherd or his wife Addison. It was so bad that she would rather be on SCUT and do paperwork before running into either of the Shepherds.
It was a normal day for her, avoiding the Shepherds and feeling like a truck was repeatedly reversing across her chest was and average day for her. She scanned the pit for anything interesting and sighed. 'Just stitches and ice packs today.' she thought monotonously.
She grabbed a suturing kit and began her work, trading empty pleasures with the ER patients. She was getting in the rhythm of things when her pager began to beep, '911 incoming ambulances multi. MVA and 2 GSW.' read across the green illuminated screen.
She sent the non critical ER patients home and the others to a room quickly to make space for the incoming ambulances. She the got the ER staff ready and new sterile equipment out. Once everything was ready, she paged the on staff surgical crew which included he fellow interns/ friends, residents, and attending. Including the Shepherds.
After sending out forwarded pages, she preceded out to the arrival bay where an ambulance was just pulling up. "Caucasian male, approx. 28 with a GSW to the chest." the leading paramedic announced wheeling the gurney up the doors beside Meredith. "Take him to curtain one, tell the ER doc there to grab Burke from cardio." Meredith ordered, seeing the next ambulance rolling in.
The paramedic nodded and did as instructed while his partner drove the ambulance out of the lot for the next one to pull in. Meredith ran to the doors and helped unload the next victim. "Caucasian female approx. 19 with GSW to the right leg." the medic in the back reported, rolling the gurney out of the ambulance.
"Take her to curtain two, tell the doc on hand to grab Torres from Ortho and Bailey from Gen." she semi repeated what she told the one before him changing only location and names of the surgeons. The medic nodded and soon after he left, the next ambulance rolled in.
By the time Meredith had got all of the victims I the ambulances to trauma bays and curtained off areas, her fellow interns and higher surgeons were already working on them. She was checking on one of the younger car accident victim, seven year old Tabitha, when Chief Webber approached her.
"Grey, tell who ever was out there with you to come back in, we need all hands on deck." he told her, not knowing she was the only one out there. Meredith said goodbye to Tabby and followed the chief out of the cubicle.
Meredith looked up at her chief of surgery and replied, "There was no one else, sir. Just me." The older man stared at her curiously before telling her to go find a patient to work on.
He then went to Dr. Bailey to confirm Meredith's reply. "Bailey, who cleared out the ER for the incoming ambulances and met them outside with Meredith?" he asked the short woman as she ordered another resident's intern to take a patient to the OR.
Bailey shook her head from side to side. "No one, Chief. By the time the other interns and I got down here, the patients were already evaluated and ready for us. Dr. Grey was the only one out there today." she answered, to busy with another patient to realized what she had just implied.
One person had the ER clear and patients ready within the twenty minutes it took for the others to finish up their surgeries and get down there. The Chief turned to relieve Meredith of her duties for the next two hours as a reward but, found that she was already on her way to do a surgery with Dr. Burke.
'She's already better than mother.' he thought, a proud smile on his face.
Three hours later…
"Good job in the pit, Dr. Grey." the Chief announced, spotting Meredith by the nurses' station. He spotted Meredith's fellow interns and other surgeons in the immediate area and decided to make a speech of it. "Interns, she is the one to look out for. Doctors, she is the one you want on your service and the one you should look to replace you when you retire." he began.
Meredith groaned and tried desperately to appear unaware of the announcement taking place. The Chief continued, "If she can prepare an ER and evaluate nearly ten patients in less than half an hour by herself, imagine what she could in the OR. Deeming her the surgical spawn of Ellis Grey is a step down, she is by far going to be greater than her mother could ever dream of being."
Seeing the annoyed look on Christina's face and the slacking jaws of her other friends, Meredith knew she would be getting the third degree at Joe's tonight if not in the lockeroom at the end of the night.